Alice James

American diarist

Alice James (7 August, 1848 - 6 March 1892) was a U.S. diarist, the sister of Henry James and William James. She is known primarily for the posthumously published diary she kept in the last years of her life.

Truly nothing is to be expected but the unexpected.

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  • What sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which every one else is reading.
    • As quoted in Alice James, Her Brothers — Her Journal (1934).
  • Truly nothing is to be expected but the unexpected.
    • As quoted in Alice James, Her Brothers — Her Journal (1934).

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